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(詳細はUnited States, Imperial Germany and Great Britain from 1887–1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the Samoan Civil War. The incident involved three American warships, USS ''Vandalia'', USS ''Trenton'' and USS ''Nipsic'' and three German warships, SMS ''Adler'', SMS ''Olga'', and SMS ''Eber'', keeping each other at bay over several months in Apia harbour, which was monitored by the British warship HMS ''Calliope''. The standoff ended on 15 and 16 March when a cyclone wrecked all six warships in the harbour. ''Calliope'' was able to escape the harbour and survived the storm. Robert Louis Stevenson witnessed the storm and its aftermath at Apia and later wrote about what he saw. The Samoan Civil War continued, involving Germany, United States and Britain, eventually resulting, via the Tripartite Convention of 1899, in the partition of the Samoan Islands into American Samoa and German Samoa.〔Ryden, George Herbert. ''The Foreign Policy of the United States in Relation to Samoa''. New York: Octagon Books, 1975. (Reprint by special arrangement with Yale University Press. Originally published at New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928), p. 574; the Tripartite Convention (United States, Germany, Great Britain) was signed at Washington on 2 December 1899 with ratifications exchanged on 16 February 1900〕 ==Gallery== File:Samoan crisis salvaged guns.jpg|Salvaged guns from the wrecked American ships at Apia. File:USS Vandalia and USS Trenton.jpg|A view of the sunken USS ''Vandalia'' from the deck of USS ''Trenton''. File:Samoan crisis Apia beach.jpg|Apia and the beach covered in driftwood and debris from the wrecked warships. File:USS Nipsic wreck 1889.jpg|USS Nipsic's wreck File:SMS Adler 1889 1.jpg|SMS ''Adler'', knocked over on the beach, 1889. File:SMS Adler 1889 2.jpg|SMS ''Adler'', view of her deck, 1889. File:SMS Adler 1889 3.jpg|SMS ''Adler''´s wreck, circa 1938 File:Illustrated London News.jpg|''Illustrated London News'' for 27 April 1889; artist’s conception of HMS ''Calliope'' being cheered on by the crew of USS Trenton as Calliope escapes from Apia Harbour. ''Calliope'' actually passed to ''Trenton''´s port. File:Samoan crisis memorial tablet 6.jpg|A memorial at Mare Island Naval Yard for the Americans killed in the cyclone. File:SMS Eber 1889 1.jpg|Wrecked ships in Apia Harbour. German gunboat SMS ''Eber'' is on the beach, the stern of USS ''Trenton'' is at right, with the sunken USS ''Vandalia'' alongside. SMS ''Adler'' is on her side in the center distance. File:Samoan Crisis wrecks 2.jpg|Wrecked vessels at Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, during salvage efforts soon after the storm. The view looks about northward, with USS Trenton and the sunken USS Vandalia to the left and the beached German corvette Olga at right.Wreckage just off Trenton's stern may be from the German gunboat Eber, which was destroyed when she struck the harbor reef during the hurricane. File:Samoan crisis 7.jpg|Another angle of the wrecked warships. File:Samoan Crisis wrecks.jpg|Wrecked warships off Apia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samoan crisis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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